EFFECTIVENESS OF GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING TYPES IN ENHANCING DISCIPLINE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OLOKURTO DIVISION, NAROK, COUNTY, KENYA
Journal Title: Africa International Journal of Management Education and Governance - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
While education is expected to change the behaviour of learners positively by moulding them into self- respecting and self-reliant individuals, discipline related issues have been at the fore of educational debates as students encounter challenges associated with adolescence. Cases of truancy, drug abuse, immorality, destruction of property and loss of life, are however, indicators of the existence of a conflict between educational aims and discipline among secondary school students. This is despite the provision of guidance and counselling services in schools, hence the need to examine the effectiveness of guidance and counselling in enhancing discipline among secondary school students. The objective of study was to establish the effectiveness of guidance and counselling types employed towards enhancing discipline among secondary school students in Olokurto Division, Narok County, Kenya. Descriptive survey design was employed in the study and questionnaire used obtain data from respondents. Person centred theory advanced by Carl Rogers guided the study. The study population comprised 861 students, 12 teacher counsellors and 6 deputy principals drawn from the six public secondary schools in the division. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were employed to sample 129 students for the study. Schools, deputy principals and teacher counsellors in the division were purposively sampled. Using test-retest method, the instruments yielded a reliability schools coefficient of r = 0.76, thus accepted for the study. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software version 20.0 and presented in tables, charts, graphs, means, frequencies and percentages. The study established that schools employed individual, peer and group types to counsel students but effectiveness had not been attained due to lack of counselling knowledge, skills and techniques due to the low training levels of teacher counsellors. Findings and recommendations of this study, if implemented will be useful to policy makers in the Ministry of Education Science and Technology, heads of secondary schools, counselling personnel and students through improved application of guidance and counselling types.
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Maria Ntarangwe, Robert, Kamundi
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